snowgoose
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This was Annandale Jane Doe's suicide note:
Now I lay me down to sleep
Soon to drift to the eternal deep
And though I die and shall not wake
Sleep sweeter will be than this life I forsake.
I truly mean no disrespect to AJD, but these are not the last words of an accomplished songwriter. Looking at it as a piece of writing outside of the context of her tragic death...it's just an amateurish modification of a Christian child's prayer, with the metre all messed up. If you read about Connie Converse's life, it's hard to imagine that this is how she would have wanted to be remembered, even if she did want to remain unidentified.
The height is a big discrepancy, too; 5'7-5'10 is tall for a woman, and you can't just decide she probably wasn't tall when her family reported that she was. People lose about 2 inches of height by age 70, not 7-10 inches.
Now I lay me down to sleep
Soon to drift to the eternal deep
And though I die and shall not wake
Sleep sweeter will be than this life I forsake.
I truly mean no disrespect to AJD, but these are not the last words of an accomplished songwriter. Looking at it as a piece of writing outside of the context of her tragic death...it's just an amateurish modification of a Christian child's prayer, with the metre all messed up. If you read about Connie Converse's life, it's hard to imagine that this is how she would have wanted to be remembered, even if she did want to remain unidentified.
The height is a big discrepancy, too; 5'7-5'10 is tall for a woman, and you can't just decide she probably wasn't tall when her family reported that she was. People lose about 2 inches of height by age 70, not 7-10 inches.